Job Description

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliche people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

This section Ally Invest is looking for an experienced Application Engineer to join our growing DevOps practice. Our DevOps team will work side-by-side with Application Development and Infrastructure teams to enable the continuous delivery of quality software systems at scale.

DevOps Engineers are actively involved in our software development lifecycle -- working with development teams to design environments, create build scripts, configure CI/CD pipelines, and build runtime containers.

The ideal candidate for this role will have extensive experience with either Development or Systems Operations within regulated industries (Finance, Healthcare, etc.).the role in a creative manner.

The Work Itself

* Gather client requirements and design consistent, repeatable processes for complex operations
* Ability to collaborate with IT operations, development teams, and other Line of Business (LOB) partners
* Drive day-to-day DevOps activities: intake, manage priorities, deliverables, etc.
* Partner with development teams to ensure proper knowledge and implementation of CI/CD processes and tools
* Partner with Enterprise DevOps team to ensure CI/CD tools and processes meet development team requirements
* Continuously tune and validate quality of current tools for network, system monitoring, client session monitoring, and log file parsing. Partner with enterprise tool team to ensure a strong toolkit is in place and properly implemented
* Develop and maintain processes for rapidly onboarding new developers onto our development stack including proper Git repository access, CI/CD tool access, monitoring tool access, proxy access, etc.
* Help cultivate a developer-centric atmosphere by identifying and lowering hurdles which get in the way of efficient and enjoyable coding practices

The Skills You Bring

* 3+ years of experience and bachelor's degree in a technical field, or an equivalent combination of experience and education
* Solid understanding of DevOps methodologies and practices
* Experience working with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Gitlab, etc.)
* Experience with multiple scripting languages (Bash, Python, PowerShell, Perl, etc.)
* Experience with core development languages (Java, NodeJS, .NET, etc.)
* Working knowledge of containers (Docker, OpenShift, AWS ECS, etc.)
* Working knowledge of Basic Networking, DNS, and Load Balancing
* Experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, ECR, etc.)
* Experience with configuration management/infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.)
* Experience with REST APIs
* Knowledge of common data serialization formats (YAML, JSON, XML, etc.)
* Experience with build scripts (make, psake, rake, fake, cake, etc.)
* Experience working with Source Control Management systems (git, SVN, TFS, etc.)
* Experience with Linux/Windows systems administration tasks
* Detail and results oriented
* Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks
* Working knowledge of Agile methodologies
* Prior work experience in financial services and/or other regulated environments is a plus

How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation -- or total rewards -- extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
* Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.